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Is It Time For A New Standard For Measuring EV Fuel Efficiency?

September 14, 2021September 14, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments cafe standards, cars, Electric cars, energy policy, epa, epa fuel economy standards, epa fuel standards, fuel, Honda, honda crv, hybrid cars, hybrids, kilowatt, kwh, phev, plug-in electric vehicle, plug-in hybid, rav4, Toyota, toyota rav4, transportation policy, watts

While I was glad to ditch my personal car in August, our household has a new-used car, which we were

Business & Economics Mobility Consumer Products

Libert-e-bikes: Marketing Mobility As Freedom

August 25, 2021August 25, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments behavioral economics, bicycle, bicycles, bike infrastructure, bikes, cars, CAYMC, cycling, cycling infrastructure, e-bikes, ebikes, economics, electric bicycles, electric bikes, electrification, entfremdung, freedom, liberty, liberty machines, marketing, marx theory of alienation, michael robertson, perceived value, safe streets

Michael Robertson, who founded a peer platform of the ill-fated Napster in 1997, once referred to cars as “liberty machines.” It’s a dominant belief among many car owners. Are eBike companies challenging that assumption in their marketing material?

Business & Economics Mobility Culture & Language

Sidebar: GM Says They’re Serious About Electrification? Prove It.

June 17, 2021June 17, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments belle isle, belle isle detroit, belle isle grand prix, bud denker, cadillac lyriq, car culture, cars, Electric cars, F-150 Super Duty State of Mind, find new roads, general motors, GM, grand prix, lear, lear corporation, mary barra, michigan accent, range anxiety, rick waggoner, roger penske, sunburn, sunscreen, triple zero, who killed the electric car

GM talks about its commitment to electrification, and then displays a spread of exclusively gas-powered cars at the Belle Isle Grand Prix.

Events

Detroit, The World’s Racetrack: My First Time At The Belle Isle Grand Prix

June 17, 2021June 17, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments beaubien, belle isle, belle isle grand prix, brooks patterson, bud denker, cars, chevrolet, collision course, dave gifford, daytona prototype international, department of natural resources, detroit tigers, DPI, economic development, fast cars, find new roads, grand prix, huski, huski chocolate, indy 500, indy cars, indycar, jay leno, leigh diffey, little caesars, mdot, michigan department of transportation, nascar, particulate emissions, pat morita, people mover, QLINE, race cars, racing, racism, really fast cars, renaissance center, roger penske, suburban racism, sweden, tragedy of the commons, vroom, vroom vroom, vroomvroom

At the Grand Prix, presented by [Car Company] on Belle Isle, we enjoyed pulled pork nachos, sunshine, and a haze of particulate emissions.

Public Safety Transit infrastructure

Morning Coffee, Detroit Traffic: The Post-COVID Craze Is About To Be Wild

May 3, 2021May 3, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ambassador bridge, bicycle safety, bike safety, car culture, cars, cycling infrastructure, cycling safety, Detroit, detroit police, detroit river, detroit traffic, dodge challenger, dodge charger, dodge durango, driving, gratiot, hi-riser, infrastructure, jeep, Mikki Taylor-Hendrix, nonmotorized infrastructure, pedestrian safety, riverfront park, traffic violence, west riverfront park, why do people always rev their dodge charger

Yesterday, Detroit was a whole traffic jam, as an increasingly vaccinated cross-section of, well, everyone, emerged from the cocoons of Michigan winter and lockdowns.

Business & Economics Culture & Language Environment

100 Corporations Produce 71% of Carbon Emissions. But Who Buys Their Products?

March 9, 2021March 9, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments air quality, air quality index, ambassador bridge, aqi, car inspections, car ownership, carbon, carbon footprint, cars, climate change, conservation, consumption, energy waste reduction, exxonmobil, garbage, incinerator, mobility justice, mobility poverty, MPSC, municipal solid waste, pollution, recycling, recycling bin, refuse, Regulation, resources, saudi aramco, single-stream recycling, solid waste, transportation justice, transportation poverty, trash, vehicles, waste

LIVING IN SOUTHWEST DETROIT, A STONE’S THROW FROM THE AMBASSADOR BRIDGE, I AM ACCUSTOMED to having to wipe off the

Urban Planning Mobility

Book Review – Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car

February 4, 2021February 3, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amazon, anthony townsend, ArgoAI, artificial intelligence, Autonomous, autonomous vehicles, AV, AV tech, AVs, BRT, car culture, cars, connected cities, connected vehicles, cruise automation, distribution, driving, Ford, fulfillment, fulfillment centers, GM, infrastructure, infrastructure deficit, infrastructure spending, integrated, jeff bezos, jeff bezos skull keg party, lidar, machine learning, microsprawl, public transit, self-driving, self-driving car, self-driving cars, smart cities, smart city, tech bro, tech bros, transit, trucks

Can autonomous cars save us? Well, no, but they can provide some vital innovation to our society. Provided we play our cards right, that is. Anthony Townsend’s book gives us the lowdown.

Mobility Public Health Public Safety Cities & Urban Planning Cycling

Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments accessibility, automobile fatalities, automotive infrastructure, autonomous vehicle, autonomous vehicles, car fatalities, car infrastructure, cars, class, cycling, cycling safety, cyclist, cyclists, death, driving, elaine herzberg, elaine herzberg death, elaine herzberg uber, environmental racism, mobility, pedestrian, pedestrian deaths, pedestrian safety, pedestrianization, pedestrians, pedestrians killed, public health, public safety, race, safe mobility, safe streets, self-driving car, single-occupant vehicles, street design, streetscaping, walkability

Angie Schmitt’s Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (2020) is a must-read

Policy Public transit Transit infrastructure

Gretchen Whitmer: When We Say “Mobility,” We Really Mean “Cars”

October 26, 2020October 26, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments cars, chrysler, decarbonization, fca, Ford, general motors, GM, governor whitmer, Gretchen Whitmer, infrastructure, infrastructure funding, market transformation, michigan, mobility, policy, transit, transit infrastructure, transportation, whitmer

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s Council on Future Mobility is not about mobility, it’s about cars. That’s got to change if we’re serious about decarbonizing transportation– or building an equitable future of any kind.

Business & Economics Urban Planning Energy

No, Honey, Oil Isn’t Dead. It’s Just Sleeping.

April 23, 2020April 23, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments cars, commodities, covid, COVID19, enron, futures, gasoline, markets, oil, OPEC, options, petroleum, russia, saudi arabia

Oil ended earlier this week with May futures contracts in the negative. This means that for every barrel of oil

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